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Informationen zum Autor Tom Stoppard's work includes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Real Inspector Hound, Jumpers, Travesties, Night and Day, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, After Magritte, Dirty Linen, The Real Thing, Hapgood, Arcadia, Indian Ink, The Invention of Love, the trilogy The Coast of Utopia, Rock 'n' Roll , The Hard Problem and Leopoldstadt. His radio plays include If You're Glad I'll Be Frank, Albert's Bridge, Where Are They Now?, Artist Descending a Staircase, The Dog It Was That Died, In the Native State and Darkside (incorporating Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon ). Television work includes Professional Foul, Squaring the Circle and Parade's End. Film credits include Empire of the Sun, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which he also directed, Shakespeare in Love, Enigma and Anna Karenina. Klappentext "Arcadia "takes us back and forth between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries! ranging over the nature of truth and time! the difference between the Classical and the Romantic temperament! and the disruptive influence of sex on our orbits in life. Focusing on the mysteries--romantic! scientific! literary--that engage the minds and hearts of characters whose passions and lives intersect across scientific planes and centuries! it is "Stoppard's richest! most ravishing comedy to date! a play of wit! intellect! language! brio and . . . emotion. It's like a dream of levitation: you're instantaneously aloft! soaring! banking! doing loop-the-loops and then! when you think you're about to plummet to earth! swooping to a gentle touchdown of not easily described sweetness and sorrow . . . Exhilarating" (Vincent Canby! "The New York Times"). Vorwort Tom Stoppard's masterpiece, elegantly rejacketed in Faber Drama's new series design. Zusammenfassung Yet here - at the core of his best play - is the greatest love story on the British stage for decades. Yes, the characters bond over ideas - but some of the most interesting people in life do just that....
